I have had this happen to me twice. One I don't remember anything about it, just that it happened (I'll explain further down). When I was in college there was this cute girl in one of my classes....
I have had this happen to me twice. One I don't remember anything about it, just that it happened (I'll explain further down).
When I was in college there was this cute girl in one of my classes. She always wore this purple hoodie and a nerdy T-shirt. Right up my alley. I never got up the courage to talk to her, so I never knew her name.
However one night I had a dream about her, and in the dream she said her name was Sally (changed for anonymity). When I woke up I was really curious. I didn't think it would be true. But I went on Facebook (which was starting to get big at the time) and searched Sally and the university we were at and lo and behold there she was. Purple hoodie and all. Her name was indeed Sally. I was floored.
The frustrating thing about this is that when this happened I remember being stunned because it was the second time I had had a dream predict something accurately. But for the life of me the first time it happened is long gone in my memory. But I distinctly remember being shocked that it happened twice.
I never did end up talking to her, I tried to build up the courage to catch her after class or something since the dream seemed like some kind of sign or fate, but I sucked back in those days and never did.
Yeah, probably. I probably pissed cupid off a lot from not getting up the courage to talk to girls. But it worked out in the end. In a 6 year relationship now, so I guess cupid is either forgiving...
Yeah, probably. I probably pissed cupid off a lot from not getting up the courage to talk to girls.
But it worked out in the end. In a 6 year relationship now, so I guess cupid is either forgiving or has a high tolerance, haha
With deja vu, faded memories and liminal experiences/coincidences all spinning around together in my head, I'm never sure whether or not the dream world has crossed into reality or vice versa....
With deja vu, faded memories and liminal experiences/coincidences all spinning around together in my head, I'm never sure whether or not the dream world has crossed into reality or vice versa.
When I was in school, I was doing an online course that had some coursework. Being lazy, I hadn't done it and hadn't even really thought about it for a few weeks. Then, one night, I woke up in a...
When I was in school, I was doing an online course that had some coursework. Being lazy, I hadn't done it and hadn't even really thought about it for a few weeks. Then, one night, I woke up in a cold sweat because I'd dreamt that it was due that night, I sat there stressed for a minute or so before realising that it wasn't due for a while and I had nothing to be stressed about.
Anyway, I went through my day as usual and in the afternoon decided to mention this dream to a friend who was also taking the course. After I'd told him the story, he told me that the coursework was due that night and the dream was correct.
So I worked basically until the following day and handed the coursework in on time. Thanks to that dream, I didn't fail that course
This has happened to me twice. Both times, I had about three oddly vivid seconds in a dream, and sometime in the next few months, that three seconds would happen again. I do not have a rational...
This has happened to me twice. Both times, I had about three oddly vivid seconds in a dream, and sometime in the next few months, that three seconds would happen again.
I do not have a rational explanation. It feels like bullshit, but the events were specific enough that I think only one could be attributable to random chance? Consciousness itself is a weird enough phenomenon that I do not think it needs a rational explanation.
I have a theory that every feeling of deja vu is just real life events that happen to match up one to one with memories from dreams we can't quite access.
I have a theory that every feeling of deja vu is just real life events that happen to match up one to one with memories from dreams we can't quite access.
I wouldn't call them oddly specific, but I've had a number of (a handful, several, I never kept an active tally but definitely more than 2) days when I dreamed about the work day I was about to...
I wouldn't call them oddly specific, but I've had a number of (a handful, several, I never kept an active tally but definitely more than 2) days when I dreamed about the work day I was about to have, and I would make it 1/2-3/4 of the way through my day only to wake up and realize it was a dream and then have to go in. Usually the conversations would beat for beat what I dreamed about since routine and the people I worked with didn't do a whole ton outside the usual during the work week.
I have these dreams every now and again, and I've had them ever since I was in grade school. They're odd for a dream; a normal situation in vivid detail, always brief. One consistent thing about...
I have these dreams every now and again, and I've had them ever since I was in grade school. They're odd for a dream; a normal situation in vivid detail, always brief. One consistent thing about them is that something always goes wrong, and I have a sense of dread about the outcome. Either I say something dumb or embarrassing, something breaks, someone trips, etc. In the grand scheme of things, they are small problems, not something that should inspire as much dread as I feel. Generally, I forget them within a day or so, until I'm in that specific situation in that specific place at a later date.
At that point, the dream comes rushing back, and I see the wrong looming until... it doesn't turn out that way. I don't know that I consciously change my behavior or avoid using something in the wrong way, but I do always 'foresee' the bad outcome in the moment, and it never really happens that way.
I have had this happen to me twice. One I don't remember anything about it, just that it happened (I'll explain further down).
When I was in college there was this cute girl in one of my classes. She always wore this purple hoodie and a nerdy T-shirt. Right up my alley. I never got up the courage to talk to her, so I never knew her name.
However one night I had a dream about her, and in the dream she said her name was Sally (changed for anonymity). When I woke up I was really curious. I didn't think it would be true. But I went on Facebook (which was starting to get big at the time) and searched Sally and the university we were at and lo and behold there she was. Purple hoodie and all. Her name was indeed Sally. I was floored.
The frustrating thing about this is that when this happened I remember being stunned because it was the second time I had had a dream predict something accurately. But for the life of me the first time it happened is long gone in my memory. But I distinctly remember being shocked that it happened twice.
I never did end up talking to her, I tried to build up the courage to catch her after class or something since the dream seemed like some kind of sign or fate, but I sucked back in those days and never did.
Somewhere, Cupid snapped his bow in half in frustration.
Yeah, probably. I probably pissed cupid off a lot from not getting up the courage to talk to girls.
But it worked out in the end. In a 6 year relationship now, so I guess cupid is either forgiving or has a high tolerance, haha
Nice, glad I'm not the only one who was painfully awkward in college... So many missed signs!
With deja vu, faded memories and liminal experiences/coincidences all spinning around together in my head, I'm never sure whether or not the dream world has crossed into reality or vice versa.
So... maybe??
When I was in school, I was doing an online course that had some coursework. Being lazy, I hadn't done it and hadn't even really thought about it for a few weeks. Then, one night, I woke up in a cold sweat because I'd dreamt that it was due that night, I sat there stressed for a minute or so before realising that it wasn't due for a while and I had nothing to be stressed about.
Anyway, I went through my day as usual and in the afternoon decided to mention this dream to a friend who was also taking the course. After I'd told him the story, he told me that the coursework was due that night and the dream was correct.
So I worked basically until the following day and handed the coursework in on time. Thanks to that dream, I didn't fail that course
This has happened to me twice. Both times, I had about three oddly vivid seconds in a dream, and sometime in the next few months, that three seconds would happen again.
I do not have a rational explanation. It feels like bullshit, but the events were specific enough that I think only one could be attributable to random chance? Consciousness itself is a weird enough phenomenon that I do not think it needs a rational explanation.
Sort of like a deja vu?
I have a theory that every feeling of deja vu is just real life events that happen to match up one to one with memories from dreams we can't quite access.
Glitch in the Matrix works for me still
I wouldn't call them oddly specific, but I've had a number of (a handful, several, I never kept an active tally but definitely more than 2) days when I dreamed about the work day I was about to have, and I would make it 1/2-3/4 of the way through my day only to wake up and realize it was a dream and then have to go in. Usually the conversations would beat for beat what I dreamed about since routine and the people I worked with didn't do a whole ton outside the usual during the work week.
I have these dreams every now and again, and I've had them ever since I was in grade school. They're odd for a dream; a normal situation in vivid detail, always brief. One consistent thing about them is that something always goes wrong, and I have a sense of dread about the outcome. Either I say something dumb or embarrassing, something breaks, someone trips, etc. In the grand scheme of things, they are small problems, not something that should inspire as much dread as I feel. Generally, I forget them within a day or so, until I'm in that specific situation in that specific place at a later date.
At that point, the dream comes rushing back, and I see the wrong looming until... it doesn't turn out that way. I don't know that I consciously change my behavior or avoid using something in the wrong way, but I do always 'foresee' the bad outcome in the moment, and it never really happens that way.